The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)

How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, __The Secular Sacred__ focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands. The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. __The Secular Sacred__ will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics. __Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.__ Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction: Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity—Engaging the Paradox (Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 The Boomerang-Effect of Culturalized Religion: The Impact of the Populist Radical Right on Confessional Politics in the Netherlands (Ernst van den Hemel)....Pages 21-41 ‘We’ and ‘The Others’ as Constituents of Symbolic Politics: On the Populist Exploitation of Long-lasting Nationalist Sentiments and Resentments Regarding Citizenship in Germany (Irene Götz)....Pages 43-65 Front Matter ....Pages 67-67 Religion, Aesthetics, and Hurt Sentiment: On the Visibility and Erasure of a Muslim Minority in India (Stefan Binder)....Pages 69-87 Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestation of Public Space in Northern Nigeria (Murtala Ibrahim)....Pages 89-105 Samba Struggles: Carnaval Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil (Martijn Oosterbaan, Adriano Santos Godoy)....Pages 107-125 Front Matter ....Pages 127-127 Homo Sanctus: Religious Contestations and the Sanctification of Heritage and Human Rights in Vietnam (Oscar Salemink)....Pages 129-154 Secularist Nativism: National Identity and the Religious Other in the Netherlands (Josip Kešić, Jan Willem Duyvendak)....Pages 155-171 Dutch Tolerance in Black and White: From Religious Pragmatism to Racialized Ideology (Alex van Stipriaan)....Pages 173-191 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Colonial Heritage and the Sacred: Contesting the Statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen in the Netherlands (Markus Balkenhol)....Pages 195-216 Rooted in the Sacred? On Mark Rothko, Tears Flowing, and Enargeia (Herman Roodenburg)....Pages 217-234 Front Matter ....Pages 235-235 Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred (Jojada Verrips)....Pages 237-261 United in Competitive Mourning: Commemorative Spectacle in Tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (Irene Stengs)....Pages 263-284 Back Matter ....Pages 285-296 1. Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity: Engaging the Paradox; Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs. -- Part 1. Culture -- 2. The Boomerang Effect of Culturalized Religion: Nativist Affect Vs. Non-Consensus-Based Collaboration; Ernst van den Hemel -- 3. "We" and "The Others" as Constituents of Symbolic Politics: On the Populist Exploitation of Long-lasting Nationalist Sentiments and Resentments Regardings Citizenship in Germany; Irene Götz -- Part 2. Public Sphere -- Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestations of Public Spaces in Northern Nigeria; Murtala Ibrahim -- 4. Religion, Aesthetics, and Hurt Sentiment: On the Visibility and Erasure of a Muslim Minority in Hindu India; Stefan Binder -- Part 3. Tolerance -- 5. "Homo Sanctus": Religious Contestations and the Sanctification of Human Rights in Vietnam; Oscar Salemink -- 6. Secularist Nativism: National Identity and the Religious Other in the Netherlands; Jan Willem Duyvendak -- 7. Dutch Tolerance in Black and White; Alex van Stipriaan -- Part 4. Images -- 8. Worshipers and Iconoclasts: Clashes about Colonial Statues in the Netherlands; Markus Balkenhol -- 9. Rooted in the Sacred? On Mark Rothko, Tears Flowing, and Enargeia; Herman Roodenburg -- Part 5. Bodies -- 10. Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred; Jojada Verrips -- 11. Samba Struggles: Carnival Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil; Martijn Oosterbaan and Adriano Santos Godoy -- 12. United in Competitive Mourning. Commemorative Spectacle in Tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; Irene Stengs -- Epilogue; Birgit Meyer